Note 352 — II THE RATE FOR NEWSPAPERS

"Who knows but that the onerous restrictions of the department have some connection with the efforts of the express companies to have second-class mail rates increased, and by both means drive the publishers of the country to employing the express companies to carry their publications? Such would not be beyond the craftiness of these skilled farmers in the field of legislation."—Nathan B. Williams, The American Post Office, 1910; Document 542, 61st Congress, 2nd Session, p. 40.